Generic_Bills_Fan

We did not destroy the ‘Super Bowl champ’ rams last year…we destroyed a team that was at the same level as our raiders/commanders wins this year. The Super Bowl champ rams were disbanded in the offseason immediately following the superbowl. we get a 1.5 game swing on Miami if we beat them in the final week of the season and they’ve had a few extremely easy opponents also…arguably the two worst teams in the league(Denver,NYG) and probably 3 of the bottom 5 (Denver,NYG,NE). Their only quality win was just sneaking past LAC. Miami also has a well established track record of losing to teams that end up appearing in the playoffs (2-6 total, 2-4 with tua). Those two wins were against injury ravaged baltimore and buffalo teams and they just squeaked by.

Oh not a gimmie by any means…I just didn’t see too many complaints about it because we played like absolute garbage so it wasn’t even worth complaining about for most. im not trying to argue that it wasn’t a trip this game felt different to me…that poyer personal foul completely swung the game imo…our starting field position was mostly terrible and that was pretty much the only time we got a stop on an early set of downs and were set to take over with good field position. All the offensive holds were only getting called one way too…most of the second half we were blitzing and the jags just held everybody but no calls. Just not sure what you’re supposed to do in that situation…holds are drive killers and a few of them we got called for were equal to or even less innocuous than what the jags weren’t getting called for

We’d need a complete overhaul of the offensive line…they’re pretty good in pass protection but not great at run blocking as it stands

Bills could be good enough…the eagles and niners cant both make it to the Super Bowl. Nobody in the afc looks remotely close to unbeatable right now

The chiefs have games like this but they’re getting bailed out by the refs on a weekly basis. They could’ve easily lost to the jets and Vikings

Hopkins’ catch was much more difficult 😂. Diggs had a one on one and caught the ball but it got wrestled out of his hands after he pulled it in. Even if he hangs on for joint possession that’s a huge play

I’m sure he’ll never admit it publicly but I doubt we’ll ever witness a team getting back to back games in London again 😂

Roger goodell said in an interview giving the jags back to back home games in London was to test if the jags gained a competitive advantage from playing there multiple weeks in a row…I think that’s what he’s referencing insane comment on goodells part…you can’t blow a teams regular season home game to ‘test’ something. If he had said we studied the effects of travel and rest and it’s got no effect on the game it would’ve been ok even if it wasn’t true 😂. But man self admittedly not knowing what it’s gonna be like is an absolute joke

Oline was getting steamrolled…I wouldn’t have felt very comfortable in a 4th and short situation either

Playing smart ain’t gonna get it done on a day you’ve got 0 running game, offensive line is getting steamrolled, defense is sitting on all the underneath routes, and opposing offense is moving the ball relatively easily. They gave him the green light to go nuts way too late in this one 😂.

I have said this from the beginning no matter how good or bad things get so at least I’m consistent 😂 but I think you’ve really gotta let josh be the football wild man that he is and it feels like Dorsey has the handcuffs on him. today was definitely a run around like a psychopath behind the LOS and hit big plays type game and it looks like they’ve reigned him in too much until it was too late. When your offensive line is not holding up and the defense is sitting on all the underneath stuff it’s really all you’ve got the vast majority of qbs couldn’t even get those throws off that you’re talking about let alone hit diggs for monster gains in any capacity so I find it hard to criticize him on those. If he had a clean pocket I’d be more on your side though

I don’t even think there was much complaining about that because they were pretty much in fg range regardless

That poyer flag was a huuuge momentum shift. That would’ve been the best starting field position we had all game by a long shot as usual the discrepancy in offensive holding swung the game. There was a solid quarter where Lawrence was under siege and his entire offensive line was holding and it was only called against us Dawkins got hit with one that the jags were getting away with all day

I didn’t see much complaining about the refs after the jets game

Then you’re screwing with your recovery schedule from the game you just played…idk why this point is getting ignored. You’ve gotta pick what the best of two kind of bad options is for your team. It’s unquestionably a strategic advantage for the other team by definition. They are already there and don’t have to make that choice I doubt the nfl ever puts a team in that position again. If they want to pull that again it absolutely has to be an away game for the team traveling late…which it would be if they were experimenting to see how a London team would work out the experiment didn’t even make sense, if a London team had all their home games in a row to start/end a season they would,you know, be the home team?

Isn’t that a double edged sword though? Like imagine 4 full weeks of practicing/gameplanning and 4 professional football games then you lose 5 hours of time while preparing for the next game. I’d say it’s BS to say we only lost because of that but to say it shouldn’t have effected them is a little unfair. at minimum those London games should be later in the day

It’s 5 hours on a plane after playing an 60 minute professional football game the weekend before and you lose 5 hours time. Imagine if on daylight savings time you lost 5 hours instead of 1 haha thered be no flight involved in that case and it would still mess ya up.

Scoring 20 with like 0 rushing yards, a bunch of holding penalties, 4 easy completions dropped on third down, and terrible starting field position all game is honestly kind of crazy lol. mcdermott is earning his money imo, that defense hung on without absolute scrubs in for most of the game. That was not an nfl caliber defense out there for most of the game and they still kept points off the board somehow. Elam literally could not guard Ridley and they still kept the jaguars from scoring for a long stretch

Too much $$$$ at stake…they want the game in an exclusive window. Really starting to sour on this league…or continuing to sour on it is more accurate 😂 completely unacceptable making teams play on bad turf on top of concrete from a player safety perspective regardless of everyone’s opinion of jet lag

Most teams are flying there late in the week to keep their recovery/practice schedule as normal as possible. It’s kind of a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation though. being there for a week prior is an undeniable strategic advantage. even with that though this was a winnable game that we choked away…both things can be true.

Guarantee you they’ll never do that to a team again and we will be the only team ever effected lol they’re lucky one of their household names didn’t get hurt on that terrible field too

I don’t think it’s enough time to truly acclimate leaving Monday anyway after playing a professional football game Sunday so most teams try to stick to their recovery schedule and leave later in the week. these guys aren’t working a 9-5 cubicle job and then flying out for a European vacation lol they’re trying to recover from a straight up battle the week before which seems to be the point that gets overlooked

These are professional athletes at the top of their craft…the margin of error between winning and losing between an average team and a good team isn’t very large. I get what you’re going for but on the flip side of it people that are like ‘I went on vacation in Europe and I wasn’t that tired’ are kind of ridiculous too unless you had 250 pound linebackers chasing you around on your vacation 😂

I’m so angry that goodell literally admitted in an interview that it was an experiment to see if it’s fair that required losing our home game. If you want to give that advantage to our opponent at least have it as an away game if they looked into it somehow and concluded it was a fair way to do things I wouldn’t have had an issue with it

I think they just like to show the losing qb looking dejected on the sideline…I’m sure he was hyping guys up too. if you’re talking about actual play on the field I thought he was pretty good..zero run support and the oline struggled…that’s the kind of game where he has a meltdown and throws three picks normally but he kept battling imo four drops for easy first downs and diggs having a big play wrestled right out of his hands hurt joshs’ stat line for sure